Saturday, September 13, 2003
Dashing trade guru and standard-bearer of the "I want my country back" movement, Paul Krugman takes on Politics & Prose next Thursday evening.
I subscribe to publications like it's going out of style. Which, nay-sayers not-withstanding, it is not. Erstwhile, Clark continues to keep us in suspense. Katrina vanden Heuvel expresses doubts that WC's as solid on national security as liberals everywhere would like him to be. Heart-throb.
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Ladies and gentlemen, I can offer no meaingful excuse for my hiatus. Last weekend, I arrived back in Washington to the general delight of children everywhere. I started work on Monday and am, in general, well on my way to the insider status for which we all clamor.
Friday, September 05, 2003
"Administration officials acknowledge that after a grueling war in Iraq, a pendulum has begun to swing in the direction of diplomacy," opines Steven Weisman in the NY Times. Ok, so Rumsfeld and Powell continue to slug it out, but how does that bode for Gingrich?
Thursday, September 04, 2003
Katrina vanden Heuvel contends some recent DC rumblings suggest "mainstream members of the conservative establishment are waking up to [W's] (mis)leading of the country into ruin." And if you scroll down, you'll also learn that Americans trust Eninem more than the President.
Erstwhile, Noam Scheiber and Franklin Foer of TNR continue to debate the Wes Clark factor. Scheiber reluctantly gives Clark a chance in a two-man showdown with Dean, but only when the DLC establishment relinquishes other obligations. Maybe before we resign ourselves to four more years of W, we might want to realize this man is pretty darn electable.
Erstwhile, Noam Scheiber and Franklin Foer of TNR continue to debate the Wes Clark factor. Scheiber reluctantly gives Clark a chance in a two-man showdown with Dean, but only when the DLC establishment relinquishes other obligations. Maybe before we resign ourselves to four more years of W, we might want to realize this man is pretty darn electable.
Wes Clark is taking the world by storm, ladies and gentlemen. While the general decides whether or not to run, a nationwide finance organization has started securing funding. Is there hope you ask for a decorated Vietnam vet and Rhodes scholar who spent the 90s single-handedly holding NATO together? Well, in a recent WP blind resume poll he upped W 49-40. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Monday, September 01, 2003
Welcome home, friends. I'm delighted to announce PMJ has found a new home on Tripod. Please be patient as I continue to tweak the layout; I'm optimistic the migration from LSE shouldn't take too much longer.
Ok, seriously: let's talk regimes for a sec. John Keane pointed out back in the 80s that "no longer do these regimes strive to control fully the bodies and souls of their subjects, to embrace everything in depth, to bring everyone together so as to produce a single will, crystallized in the caesariest leader. Contemporary totalitarianism demands precisely the opposite of its populations: passivity, opportunism, mediocrity, cynicism, an exclusive concern with cultivating such private concerns as career and family life. The regime... is content with the regulation and control of apparent behavior; so long as its subjects conform and only disagree silently, they are probably safe." As a point of departure, Keane's description of totalitarianism -- post-modern in its use of the term "caesariest" -- leaves little to the imagination.
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